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20 JEFFERSON HIGHWAY DECLARATION [July. 1916

This will be done for two good reasons. Alinnesota deserves JEFFERSON HIGHWAY it for the effort she has made to get the Jefferson Highway, and the knowledge of what she has done and what she has DECLARATION to show will be both a lesson and an inspiration to other localities not yet fully aroused to their possibilities, to go Published Monthly by and do likewise. JEFFERSON HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION Minnesota will be in the spotlight in the August Declara­ tion. Which state '\ill get into it for September? E. T. MEREDITH. Des Moines, Iowa President D. N. FINK. Muskogee, Oklahoma News and Progress Vice-President WALTER PARKER, , Along the Route Secretary-Treasurer (Continued from page 16) J. D . CLARKSON, Des Moines, Iowa the counties on the "Trail" that have not hard-surfaced roads will follow G eneral Manager our example I am, Yours for good roads, JAS. C. WRIGHT. E. T. MEREDITH Managing Editor June 28th, 1916. F. J. WRIGHT Mr. James C. Wright, Associate Editor Smithville, ~1issouri. Address Communications to Des Moines, Iowa My 'Dear Mr. Wright: I am more than delighted upon receiving your letter or June 25th. ad­ Subscription price 50 cents per year. vising that the bond is~ue of $1,250,000.00 has carried in Clay county and Advertising Rates-$40 per page; $22 per half page; $12 per that you are now assured of a network of hard surfaced roads throughout quarter page. the county. I want to congratulate you personally on your success as I Contributions solicited from all parties interested in the Jefferson know you were the man that started the movement for the bond issue. Highway and territory served by the Highway. Photographs are The road you described, that will become a part of the Interstate Trail urgently desired and should be accompanied by descriptions. and Jefferson Highway, will certainly be a credit to the Highway a nd Sample copies free on request. Commercial organizations will be quoted terms on bulk orders for subscriptions Clay county has set an example which I trust will be followed by adjoining counties along the "Trail" until we can have a ..365 Day Road" reaching STATE OFFICIALS from New Orleans to Winnipeg. Work is progressing nicely all along the ..Trail," much work of a perma­ LOUISIANA nent character being done this year. I notice the tou.rist travel is begin­ Vice-President-Lucien E. Lyons, Jr .• New Orleans. ning and is much• heavier than previous years. Directors-\\' . E. Atkinson, New Orleans; J. T . Bullen, Shreveport; Alex Grouchy, Jr., Baton Rouge. I certainly would be pleased if it were possible for me t o attend your OKLAHOMA barbecue today and shake hands with all my old friends in Clay county Vict-President-Dr. Oliver Bagby, Vlnita. and help you to celebrate your victory. I am with kindest regards t o Directors-D. N. Fink, Muskogee; R . W. Dick, McAlester; W. F. yourself and inquiring friends, Sincerely, Dodd, Caddo. W. A. HOPKINS. ARKANSAS Vice-President-L. R . Putman, Fayetteville. Ridgeway, Mo., June 30, 1916. Directors-Geo. D. Locke, Ro~ers; John D. Barlow, Hope; Hon. Geo. Single, Ft. Sm1th. Mr. J . D . Clarkson, General Manager, NEBRASKA Jefferson Highway Association, Vice-President-R. K. Brown~ Omaha. Des Moines, Iowa. Directors-Clark G. Powell, Omaha; E.' V. Parish, Omaha; Robt. Dear Sir: H. Manley, Omaha. Ridgeway, a town of one thousand inhabitants, is located just four MISSOURI miles from the proposed Jefferson Highway and the Inter-State Trail and 'Vice-President-John M . Malang Joplin. we are very anxious to get this Highway ourselv~s . Directors-E. J. Kling, Nevada; Geo. E. Mclninch, St. Joseph; W. B. Scuggs, Harrisonville. I understand that this Highway has been located on the Inter-State IOWA Trail throughout the entire route, and as it seems like we have b~en so l"ice-President-H. H . Polk, Des Moines. unfortunate as to not be on the Inter-State Tra il, we thought possible that Directors-W. A. Hopkins, Lamoni; H . H. Shepard, Masori City; E. C. if we could show you a much better foad through Ridgeway, tha n you Harlan, Indianola. have on the Inter-State Trail, you could be induced to change the route. KANSAS We have a prairie road practically all the way from Bethany through Vice-President-R. S. Tiernan, Ft. Scott. Ridgeway and Blythedale to Lamoni, Iowa, and o nly one mile farther. Directors-A. H . Shafer, Pittsburg; Marion Coulter, Girard; Paul Russell, Paola. You will also note by the enclosed map that I am sending jou that o ur MINNESOTA road shows twenty-seven less turns than the other road, with one stretch Vice-President-]. H. Beek, St. Paul. of road through Ridgeway of seven miles without a turn. It would be Directors-Herman Roe, Northfield; Henry H. Ormc, St. Paul; impossible for me to tell you the difference in the grades unless you come Thos. E . Cashman, Owatonna. up and inspect the road for yourself. SOUTH DAKOTA In going through Ridgeway and Blythedale, the Hi~hway would pass Vice-President-H. F . Brownell, Sioux Falls. through two towns of 1500 inhabitants a nd through a farming district Directors-~: ~·l\~~~:r~d;.>~}0 ~a~~1iL Walter l\1. Cheever, Brooking; that is richer and more thickly populated, which would no doubt be a great help in case a bond issue for rock roads would be put before the Fice- President-W. N. King, Denison. people. Directors-\\' . N. H a rrison, Greenville; E . C. Bracken, Greenville; B. K. A short time ago I made a special trip to St. Joseph to ;;ee Mr. Coghlan, College Station. Mclninch in regard to this road and he referred me to you a nd he thou~ht NORTH DAKOTA that you would no doubt come and look over the road. He also stated \ "ice-President-]. P. Hardy, Fargo. that as soon as he could see you he would go over the proposition with you. D irectors-F. A. Irish, Fargo; J . D. Grant, Fargo; C. J. Kochelhoffer, W a hpeton. We will pay all expenses if you will come up here and go over this road. We would like t o take you and Mclninch and Hopkins over this road a nd Volume I July, 1916 Number 6 show you just what kind of a road we have, and in case that we arc not fortunatC enough to secure this Jefferson Highway. we fe el that it will be much better for us to miss it just four miles than it would be for it to MINNESOTA MAKES GOOD miss us a hundred miles and we can build a rock road t o it. Hoping to hear from you at your earliest convenience, I am, A Large Proportion of the Space in the August lsaue Very truly yours, Will be Given to Minnesota. J. L. CHAMBERS, Secretary Commercial Club. Just as we are going. to press, the General Manager returned P. S. W e also have a -Commercial Club of 250 wide awake members. ·from a seven day trip in Minnesota, where he has been scour­ ing about thirteen hundred miles of road that was in contest Ankeny , lowa,June27, 1916 for acceptance b~ · the Jefferson Highway. Mr. J . D. Clarkson, The story of the things that were done and the things that Des Moines, Iowa. were seen on this trip, reads like a romance. Dear Sir: It .is generally supposed that the days of miracles are over, As per your request 1 am enclosing you photos of our streets taken on and yet 1\linnesota has been doing some miraculous things, June 23. 1916, just one year after the first application of oi l, which shows an account of which will occupy much space in the August them to be in fme condition. Our town is situated on very level land and number of the Jefferson Highway Declaration. we have a heavy black soil, commonly known as Iowa Gumbo, which in